Tuesday, March 27, 2012

When I came across this tutorial on Pinterest, I instantly knew that I wanted to make some.

And so I did.

I just happened to have a left over piece of canvas {8x10}, and a bunch of popsicle sticks.

So I set to work, hot gluing down the sticks, and using some really good snips to trim the popsicle sticks to size.

I liked the au-natural look of the sticks, so I opted not to paint them. I did however paint the sides of the canvas.

I then went into Microsoft Publisher {I use it for everything}, and in my created document, I typed out my phrase I wanted on this particular canvas. I then mirrored it & saved it as a jpeg file. I then cut out a piece of freezer paper & taped it to a piece of computer paper {to make it easier to go through the printer}. I then printed out my saying onto the shiny side of the freezer paper.

I then flipped the freezer paper over onto the wood, and rubbed the ink into it. I then took a black marker & carefully traced each letter in just a little bit.

And wa-la! I have a fun art piece to display in my family room.

This was so easy to do, I think it took me hour at the most. I have plans to make more!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Monday, March 26, 2012

With my renewed zest for Baking & Cooking again, I decided that I wanted to start making breakfast at least 2-3 a week. So I went on the search for fast & delicious sounding breakfast items. While on Pinterest, I came across this lovely-sounding muffin recipe:

I love me some Cranberries, and I've really liked the Craisen-filled muffins I've made in the past, so this wasn't a far stretch.

I only tweaked the recipe somewhat...instead of adding vanilla extract, I substituted some Orange Emulsion, because Cranberries & Orange are the perfect match.

As you can tell, the cranberries kind of stayed put, they didn't melt down over the bottoms of the muffins when I flip them over. But that's ok, it made less of a mess. The muffin base was great as well. Not to sugary, soft, and with just the slightest hint of orange.

Friday, March 23, 2012

So I've recently, in the last couple of months, fallen in love with the potatoe-filled-pasta goodness know as pierogies. I've had them a couple of different ways, and they are just yummy. So when I came across this recipe on Pinterest, I pinned it for future reference. Well, the time came the other day for me to try this recipe.